On December 7-8, 2013 the first Bonsai Winter Silhouette Exhibition on the East Coast was held at the David H. Murdock Research Center in Kannapolis, North Carolina, just north of Charlotte. The elegant exhibition was hosted by Steve Zeisel, Director of the Nutrition Research Institute. The North Carolina Research Campus provided the venue which featured marble from the same quarry in Italy that Michelangelo used to carve his famous “David” in a unique four story rotunda crowned with a beautiful dome. This is the tallest dome south of Washington, D.C. The marble floor inlay with beautiful geometric forms and tall pillars, truly an elegant setting for bonsai featuring deciduous bonsai without foliage. Black curtains were used as backgrounds to highlight the light colored bark. The lighting was excellent, perhaps because of the highly polished light colored marble floors. The four story rotunda added another dimension to this bonsai exhibition which I have never experienced before, and I’ve seen quite a number of shows around the world.
Deciduous bonsai displayed during this season reveal the beauty of the tree with everything showing, so viewers can study and appreciate the beauty of buds, bark, form. There is no hiding of any flaws or wire scars, which is often not the case with evergreen bonsai. This shows how well the trees have been trained and have aged during the years.
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